Owner charged in dogs’ deaths (St. Petersburg Times)
Workers found the decomposing bodies of two dogs in locked cages in her apartment.

Prairie dogs win a round (Rocky Mountain News)
Prairie dogs dug their way out of being classified as predatory animals by the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday.

Profile America: Sled Dogs to the Rescue (Kansas City InfoZine)
It may sound like a movie script, but some brave sled dogs and their drivers actually saved many lives in Nome, Alaska, on this day in 1925.

Dogs still best deterrent (Vancouver Province)
Smart policing technology is being credited for a dramatic reduction in auto crime across B.C., but thieves still rank good old-fashioned police dogs as their No. 1 fear.

‘Fighting dogs’ seized by police (BBC News)
Police seize three dogs suspected of being used for fighting.

Therapy dogs prove to be teacher’s best friend (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
School 3 has found an unusual way to inspire reading by having kindergarten to grade 9 students gather in small groups and read to specially trained “therapy dogs” in the school’s library.

Cats, dogs from countries with minimal rabies risk to be quarantine-exempt (Channel News Asia via Yahoo! Asia News)
SINGAPORE: Cats and dogs from countries with minimal risk of rabies can soon be imported into Singapore without having to go through a 30-day quarantine.

Case of 2 dogs will go to trial (St. Petersburg Times)
A motion that would have let two women keep them is denied. ST. PETERSBURG - A Pinellas County judge has denied a motion that would have allowed two Tampa Bay area women to keep dogs rescued after Hurricane Katrina.

Judge rules against Katrina dogs’ new owners (St. Petersburg Times)
Master Tank in a 2004 photo. ST. PETERSBURG A Pinellas County judge Thursday denied a motion that would have allowed two Tampa Bay women to keep dogs abandoned in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.